Community Work
Befriended
Worth Schools partners closely with Befriended to support their work which was "born out of a desire and passion to make a difference in the lives of isolated and vulnerable people."
As well as sending our students on a weekly basis to Befriended to built authentic relationships with their clients, Worth also provides free tickets to school plays and music concerts to provide a calendar of activities and entertainment to the clients that Befriended supports.
We are also very proud of Gail Millar, CEO of Befriended, who received a well deserved Coronation Award for her work in the community through Befriended.
Life Reform Africa
Over the past fifteen years, Life Reform Africa has worked to transform lives in western Kenya, Kitabisi villages. Working with the local church, Life Reform have built a primary school to provide free education for 150 orphan children, dug boreholes to provide clean drinking water, and set up a vocational training school to teach tailoring skills to single mothers, widows and vulnerable teenage girls, enabling them to gain economic independence, providing wheelchairs and glasses for the physically and visually impaired and supporting widows.
Staff of Worth School have supported the work of Life Reform over a number of years and now the school is launching a partnership with Life Reform through the school's Mission Team. The aim of this partnership is to build an authentic relationship between members of the Kitabisi school and the Worth Community, with students making contact with Life Reform throughout their time at Worth. This culminates in a Mission Trip to Kitabisi at the end of Year 12 for a mutually beneficial exchange of 'Caritas' (the love between peoples - Pope Francis).
Crawley Open House
Crawley Open House provides support and services for those suffering the effects of homelessness, unemployment, loneliness, discrimination, or other forms of social exclusion. Our support is available to anyone in need.
Aims:
Building authentic relationship through a students time at school with guests and staff at COH - Art Workshop, Football and future Music and Drama sessions.
COH to make use of facilities at Worth School for Sport, Music and Drama.
Students involved as part of Student Leadership pathway to meet objective of raising up servant hearted leaders for society.
Background:
A desire to develop a local whole school flagship charity that the school has a historic relationship with and provides exceptional benefit to the local community.
Deputy Head Co-curricular & Partnerships, Social Outreach Coordinator.
This is a historic partnership, re-established for May 2023.
Resources:
Resources: Facilities, transport, engaged students & staff.
Facilities: Football, music & drama spaces.
Staffing: Teaching and non-teaching
Giving: Fundraising for COH is mainly tangible goods, as requested, such as non-perishable food items and clothing.
Impact:
Assessment: Numbers of activities provided, attendance of activities by guests and students. Reviewed termly & annually.
Pupil Involvement:
Our students, as part of our Servant Leadership Pathway, will engage in relationship building with guests and staff at COH. They will participate in and support the delivery of activities for those guests and promote food bank efforts for COH.
Yr 10 students (14-15) & Yr 12 Students (16-17). Male and female students.
Frequency:
Ongoing, weekly activity. Art Workshop May-June 2023, continuing into 2023-24. Football September 2023-24.
Other sessions for music and drama will be built into the programme as we develop our partnership.
Mary's Meals
Worth currently supports two African schools through Mary's Meals, providing a school meal every day for each child allowing them to choose education over food and helping to lift them out of generational poverty.
Aims:
Develop authentic relationship with a global charity providing a significant, sustainable and long lasting benefit to its community with a tangible impact of support from the school.
Establish relationships between students and staff at Worth and their counterparts at the schools we support.
Working towards a visit to the school at the end of a students time at worth to meet people they have been in contact with during their time here.
Background:
Worth has supported Mary's Meals since 2018 and so far raised well over £40,000 for the Charity.
Resources:
The school uses educational materials and resources to assist in educating our students about the work of Mary's Meals. We also support fundraising efforts led by students as part of the servant leadership pathway through school. The school has financially contributed over £42,000 in the last 5 years and now supports two schools.
Impact:
Mary's Meals is a highly effective and efficient Charity, with 93% of all money raised going directly into providing free meals for students at school. This means that we can accurately show the level of tangible support we are providing. £20 donated to Mary's Meals through our project page will feed a child at one of our schools for a year.
Pupil Involvement:
In Year 9 our students go through the Common Good course which gives them a grounding and understanding of their responsibility to society. This includes letter writing/correspondence with children at Farsee Korma and Mwandakwisano Public Schools. In Year 10 our students actively participate in fundraising for those schools. In Year 11 our students continue correspondence, producing videos and sending Christmas and Easter cards / gifts. In Year 12 our students again lead fundraising projects with the school building towards launching a trip out to Farsee Korma Public School.
Frequency:
Activities related to Mary's Meals run twice weekly, in addition are ad hoc fundraising events and a Lent pudding fast (with saved funds going to Mary's Meals).
St Leonard's Church Volunteering
Each week pupils visit to help with many aspects of maintenance in the grounds and in the Church and Church Hall.
Maidenbower Care Home
Each week a small group of Year 7 and 8 pupils visit the care home to read, play games and participate in other activities with the residents.
Brendoncare Care Home
Each week a small group of pupils visit Brendoncare care home to interact with the residents. Activities include engaging in conversation, playing games and assisting residential staff in various other stimulating activities.
Avon House Care Home
Each week a small group of pupils visit Avon House care home to interact with the residents. Activities include engaging in conversation, playing games and assisting residential staff in various other stimulating activities.
